Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals

Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals contains a series of movie segments and activities to assess or practice grammar points through fun, challenging exercises. Here you will find the movie segments, the lesson plans, printable worksheets with answer key for each activity, and the tips to develop your own grammar activities with the DVDs you have at home. New activities are posted regularly. Teaching grammar with movie segments is inspiring and highly motivating.

Feb 28, 2018

This is very good movie, but this scene is very sad. Watch it beforehand and check if it is suitable for the moment and the students. It is an effective task, my students liked it, but they felt really sorry for the main character.

There are different ways to give bad news. Read the ways you can give bad news.

I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you...

I'm sorry I've got a bit of bad news to tell you..

I really don’t know how to say it, but …

I’m sorry to have to say this, but …

I really feel bad to have to say this, but …

Watch the segment and check the way the bad news was given. Finally, talk to a partner, take the roles of the characters and give the bad news and react to it yourselves.

Group discussion:

1. How effective was the way he was given the bad news? Is there a better way to give such bad news?

2. Would you do it differently?

Role Play - Giving and reacting to the bad news:

You have to tell your best friend you can’t come to his/her wedding

You are the president of a company and you have to announce reduction of costs, so he will have to dismiss employees

You have to tell a customer that you cannot fix his computer hard drive and everything will be lost

You have to tell your mom and dad that you can't spend Christmas with them

You have to tell your friend that you crashed the car he had lent you to go on a date

You are a teacher and you have to tell your student that he failed the course despite of all his effort.

Jan 15, 2018

This is a great, intriguing movie that takes place in Iceland, a really beautiful country. The story makes you reflect upon the meaning of life and relationships. A must see.

BOKEH:

A trick in photography where one part of the photo is in focus and the rest isn't, so attention is drawn to the subject. That out-of-focus area is called bokeh.

CONTEXT:

On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one
morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared.

Watch the movie segment speculate about what happened. Then write sentences, using the following pattern:STRONG POSSIBILITY: MUST HAVE + ______________.POSSIBILITY: COULD/MIGHT HAVE + ______________.IMPOSSIBILITY: CAN'T/COULDN'T HAVE + _____________.- Everyone was killed because of a nuclear war .Ex: There couldn't have been a nuclear war. There might have been a nuclear war.- The population was abducted bt UFOs.- The characters were drugged and imagined it all.- The island population fled to another side of the country.- People are attending a local festival far from the city.- Everyone is hiding.- Your own idea.

Nov 30, 2017

Talk to partner. Can you explain the difference between a Ritual and a Tradition?

Share your guesses with the class.

Read the paragraphs about tradition and ritual.

• Tradition is a generic term that encompasses a wide variety of things and concepts that are handed down by one generation to another. A tradition is an act, behavior, or a belief system which has a special significance for the members of the society.

• Ritual is an act or a series of acts that are performed or observed in a society. In every society, important functions, events, ceremonies, festivals are marked by certain acts or a series of acts that are perceived to have a symbolic value. Rituals are observed almost religiously because, in most cases, they have a religious backing and, therefore, considered important for individuals in the society. It is the presence of rituals that make an event formal and traditional.

According to the definitions above, decide which situations are rituals and traditions.

a handshake to greet others

the practice to honor and respect the seniors

exchanging wedding rings on the alter

bride's wearing white on the wedding day

Traditions

2, 4

Rituals

1, 3

Watch the movie segment from the movie The Great Wall and make a list of acts involved in the rituals of the scene. Can you see any traditions? Have in mind the acts, clothes, feelings, etc.

Watch the segment from the fantastic movie, Baraka, and compare both rituals. Write sentences with BOTH:

Remember:

Both

Both means 'this one and that one', 'these two together', 'at the same
time' (it always precedes two elements):

Ex: Both my parents are from Brazil. My mother is from
Salvador and so is my father.

Ex: Burger King sells both burgers and fries. Burg sells burgers and also fries.

Both can also be used as a pronoun:

Ex: Both of them work near their homes. Those
two people work near their homes.

Oct 25, 2017

Watch a traditional monster wedding in the segment. Make a list of a few things that happen during a wedding and that do not happen in a traditional human wedding. Then write a few things that happen in both monsters and humans weddings. Pay close attention to the guests, families, maid of honors, the bride and the groom, the decoration, among other features

It happens in a monster's wedding but not in a human's one.

__________________________________

__________________________________

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It happens in both a monster's and in a human's wedding,

__________________________________

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Discuss in pairs:

1. What's your opinion about this kind of wedding?

2. Talk about an unusual wedding you have gone to or seen on TV.

3. Talk about the kind of wedding you would like to have (or talk about your own wedding).

Oct 15, 2017

This is one of my favorite movies I have seen this year. You can't miss it.

Watch the movie segment:

These are a few of the characters of the movie "Sing". Write questions to the answers below.

1) _________________________________________________ ?

Johnny sings in an alley.

2) __________________________________________________ ?

He sings romantic songs.

3) ___________________________________________________ ?

Rosita sings in the kitchen while she feeds the children.

4) ___________________________________________________ ?

She has many children.

5) ___________________________________________________ ?

Ash plays the guitar.

6) ____________________________________________________ ?

Meena sings very well, but she is very shy.

7) ____________________________________________________ ?

Mike plays the saxophone.

Talk with a partner.

1) Can you sing well? Can you play a musical instrument?
2) What are your favorite singers and bands?
3) What kind of music do you like?
4) Where do you like to sing?
5) Do you like TV programs, such as The Voice, America's Got Talent, among other singing contests TV programs?

Key:

1) Where does Johnny sing?
2) What kind of music does Johnny (like to) sing?
3) Where does Rosita sing?
4) How many children does Rosita have?
5) What musical instrument does Ash play?
6) How does Meena sing?
7) What musical instrument does Mike play?

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A little about myself

I'm a teacher at Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasilia, Brazil. I'm a Branch Coordinator and Teacher Trainer as well. I really like movies and seeing them with "different" eyes, trying to see how I can use them in my classroom. Recently, I have dedicated my ideas to grammar activities with movie segments because, apparently, teachers use movies for many purposes, but grammar. Working with movie segments fosters students' production and interest. I truly believe that grammar exercises should be attractive. I have just developed a new blog for movie segments to enhance topic based classes, focusing on conversation, listening comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. If you have suggestions for the blogs and the activities, just say it!